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Saying the truth is racist now? Are these cheap knock-offs Chinese or not? China remains the main source of counterfeit goods. This is a fact. > Counterfeit goods are estimated to …

It is possible to block web font request on a per-domain basis via an extension, even on Chrome. I have webfonts disabled by default for a while, and thought about building a white…

uMatrix is definitely great for this. I consider it a request firewall at browser level. And it works very well at blocking everything (JS, CSS, image, any type of request really) …

Since you are new to HN, you may not know this, but it is considered poor form to complain about being downvoted. And more often than not, it invites even more downvotes as a resul…

> as long as they propagate our values and don't crush us. There's a paradox here I think. If they propagate our values, then there's a very good chance that they will crush us. Ho…

First time I hear about Brian May being an astrophysicist. Very surprising (to me at least). He was awarded his PhD in 2007, for his study on the formation of zodiacal dust clouds.…

> BeautifulSoup is great, but it's counterintuitive (I always need to refer to documentation even for very basic aspects that I've used dozens of times before) and it's often slow …

If you have a nvidia GPU, then it may well be the fault of the latest drivers (390.25), which have been buggy, and it's especially notable under Chrome/Chromium (video/audio stutte…

> What are kids today using to do this kind of 'make my own tinkered games' stuff -- do they go straight to Unity, or still something like QBasic? Python, with pygame, is the moder…

> I mean why would a successful, well-adjusted "gentleman" even be in a situation where the best option for him is to live in a shared apartment with a woman considerably younger t…

Gut reactions to psychopaths tend to be the opposite: they are charming, and charismatic. Theres's a very good chance that you will like them, from the first impression. That's one…

The url can be found via the archive's API, and you can specify a timestamp. http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=http://yorktownhist... It returns a json with, notably, the cl…

That's assuming that someone recognizes which strategy was responsible for failure. Blaming the competitors, or the employees, is probably much more comforting and easier for upper…

> But, at least for me, the industry has done a decent job of competing with piracy on convenience. It has, but the fragmentation that you mentioned is starting to seriously erode …

I wasn't talking about economic competitors, but opponents to Google/Apple in the political area (e.g. EFF), who may lobby for changes. Therefore my note about the democratic proce…

> Most people don't realize how bad all sorts of things in their life are. I'd say that most people are regularly bombarded by all these issues in the medias. If they still don't r…

> This is why both android and ios are NOT the mobile os of the future. I too would like a more open OS for mobiles, but you have to realize that the majority of users doesn't care…

> If you want to advocate cryonics for the masses, think about what you would do if you had to live in a world with the reanimated masses of the 18th century. Sounds like Riverworl…

This is on Windows. From my own experience, a few months ago, on Linux mpv was still the better choice (more performant, better image quality, some more polished/reliable features …

> Which is why I personally dont even consider it. So, assuming you're a man (bear with me if you aren't): are you so open-minded and rational that you do consider female clothes i…

https://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/brain-training-bo... It's based on the Brain Endurance Training (BET), by Samuele Marcora of the university of Kent, who is quoted in the…

> Why dress up / acquire certain things, in order to conform to some random pre-designated style? Why speak english and not invent your own language? Clothing and appearance is (al…